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- From: todd@crayola (Todd Katz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: *QUIET* hard-drive for PowerBook (internal)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.190134.14176@informix.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:01:34 GMT
- References: <1hmcluINNdbo@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- I bought a Quantum Go drive from LaCie and I think it is quite a bit
- louded than the 20 meg. Conner mechanism that came with the PB100. A
- company in Independence, Mo. (I think it's A__ (three initials) -- they
- advertise heavily in Mac magazines.) sells the same drive for less money.
- They also sell an external housing for the drives for $79 which I also
- bought. That works OK if there are no other external SCSI peripherals
- connected to you Mac (I tried to hook it up to a Mac II).
-
- -- tk
-
-
- In article <1hmcluINNdbo@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu
- (Vincent Fox) writes:
- > Anyone have any recommendations on a quiet drive? I need to replace this
- > 20 megger in my PB100 with something bigger. In the process, I'd like
- > to find something that doesn't whine and rattle so loudly. Lower power
- > consumption would obviously be desirable as well :-)
- >
- > Price on the drives from LaCie looks reasonable, comments?
- >
- > Background: I bought the PB100 on a lark when MicroCenter was dumping
- > the 2/20 configurations. Now I find I've bought myself a PowerPort Gold
- > 14.4k modem, and a 6 meg upgrade, and find myself using it both at
- > work and at home as my main computer. Only thing left about it that's
- > weak is the hard drive (and the puny lead-acid battery life).
- >
- > This 16 Mhz 68000 seems to run plenty fast enough for all the kinds of
- > things I would want to do on a mono machine. If someone made a battery
- > powered ram disk to replace the hard drive (30-40 meg range) and a
- better
- > battery it'd be great. Ah well, maybe the next generation of Duo's will
- > be better than the current ones.
- >
- > A PB100 junkie....
-